If the government doesn't regulate the market, then there can be no monopolies. Meaning, no planned obsolescence, because if you, as a company, employ such tactics, you'll be crushed by the free market. You'll be crushed by individuals wanting to buy the best product--the one that doesn't break after 30 days--for the cheapest price.
Apple could try to make their phones die after a year, but they have no government subsidies, no govt contracts, no special legal standing to secure their business. Meaning, any other company can replicate their product and out compete them in the market.
Thing's like monopolies exist because of government intervention in the market economy. Social media platforms can censor with impunity, why? Because they're the social media monopolies. How? Because they get special privileges secured by the government. Privileges like: cheaper production costs because of govt subsidies, tax exemptions, all the licensing and certifications they could need, etc.
As an example, look at airliners. Why are there only 4-5 major commercial airliners? Because they use the government to increase the barriers to entry of their industry. You can't just start and airline service. You have to get all the government certifications, licensing, approvals, insurance, etc. Meaning, you can't start an airliner unless you've got millions upon millions to dump into it before you can open your doors and start earning revenue.
As well, how can your up-start airline service compete against airliners that are bailed out by the government any time they make a major mistake. Just like the major banks, post 2008 crisis the government gave out $900 Billion in bailouts to the same banks who crashed the economy. If those banks had to pay their own debts, they wouldn't exist today. But, now they're bigger than ever.
There are plenty of anti-trust laws. Yet, we have more monopolies than ever before. The answer isn't more government, it's less.
>If the government doesn't regulate the market, then there can be no monopolies.
Nigga please, what is this bullshit?
Of course there can be monopolies, why do you think standard oil got dismantled?
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Man, your naivety is shocking
What makes you think, you, the peons, are going to prevail in a "free market"?
He who has the gold makes the rules, with or without .gov, might is right
You still haven't explained how adding more government intervention is going to stop monopolies.
The govt controls nearly every aspect of the market economy. So, why exactly are there still monopolies? Bigger monopolies than have ever existed in the history of the world. Why is that? We have anti-trust laws, there shouldn't be any monopolies!
As a thought, would pharma companies be so huge if, the moment they created a drug, the generic version was produced and sold? No way. Instead, they get to secure their product for 70 years, setting the prices as high as they'd like, and no one can do anything about it because they've got the government securing the patent. Anyone making a generic version for 5,000% cheaper will get arrested by the govt--not the pharma company.
A free market economy means those participating in the market (you and me) get to buy whatever we want, and deal with the consequences accordingly. No company gets a leg-up because they've got government backing. Everyone plays on the same field. Standard Oil got massive because they essentially got luck and struck a massive swell of that black-gold. If I recall, however, they used their money and influence to negotiate cheaper transpiration rates. I can't recall if it was from the govt, or just deals they worked out with the railroads.
The fact remains, Standard Oil got "dismantled", but there are still only a handful of energy superpowers. Nothing changed. Just the name of the companies.
When will you fucking understand the problem isn't with the gov but with shitty people?
You think what? That the gov is a magic machine running on its own?
It's made of people
And the more the gov harbors shitty people the more the gov is shitty
And where do you think those people come from?
Another dimension?
No
It's "your fellow citizen", "your" own society manufactures them
Damn
You can remove the gov those shitty people are still there, and wherever you put them they'll shit over everything
The only parameter stopping them is the law, until they shit this one too, and then the gov collapses utlimately and it's anarchy shithole all over the place, and then you get your anarcho free market capitalist horror
Damn
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